1. The Software Paradox →

    One such pattern I noticed five years ago or so was that companies were having a harder time making money from software. Not a hard time, precisely – Microsoft and others were effectively still printing money through the up-front sale of bits – but harder. Traditional software companies were facing stiff competition from SaaS-players and open source.

    I had the opportunity to read Steve’s latest book wihle he was putting the finishing touches on it. Like his previous book, The New Kingmakers, this is a thought-provoking must-read for those of us in the software industry.

  2. Very Pleased with WebFaction + Hover

    A little while back I buckled down and did some much needed restructuring of my domain registration and web hosting. I made the decision to let more than half of my domains expire, and moved all of the domains I was not letting lapse to Hover.1 I’m down to 17 domains from over 100. Of…

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  3. Watching Star Wars IV with my 6 year old.

    She is wearing her Princess Leia dress and telling me what is going to happen before it happens.

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  4. To: Family & Friends

    Date: May 25, 2015

    Subject: Treatment Update

    Hi Everyone, I know it’s been a little while since I’ve sent an update, but happily that is because there hasn’t been much to report. I am still on the same clinical trial, and had a scan a month back that showed some tumor growth and some tumor shrinkage – this is what they refer…

    Continued…

  6. iMessage feature request: show the recipient’s current time. I’d like to avoid buzzing a friend’s phone in the middle of the night when they are (unbeknownst to me) traveling in Europe.

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  7. Both East and West NBA Conference Finals are between the #1 (Golden State, Atlanta) and #2 (Houston, Cleveland) seeds. Chalk!

  8. Disable Submit Button After a Form is Submitted

    Once a user has submitted a form, you generally don’t want them to submit it a second time.1 A nice way to handle this is to disable the submit button once the form has been submitted, while replacing the text in the submit button with a message to let the user know that their desired…

  9. Tom Brady talking “Deflategate” in front of a background touting #flexball – you can’t make this stuff up.

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  11. We’ve Made Web Development Complicated

    When I first made my transition from front-end development into back-end development in ~2002, I had two things to learn: a server-side language how to talk to a database (SQL) on top of my knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With these five basic things, I was able to build some useful stuff. I’m working…

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  12. Re-structuring CSS and JS files so that external libraries and override files flow cleanly through Gulp.

    Sorry ladies, I’m taken.

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  14. NBA announcers, do we have players that can really “score the football” on the basketball court? Do we need the “basketball” distinction?

  15. Sane Laravel 5 Mail Example

    For some reason, the example code in the Laravel docs for their Mail feature neglect to show how to pass defined variables into the closure. Here is something a little more useful. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in…